Today is Monday after what seemed to be a thirty second long weekend. We started off the class a little shaky and because so many people are gone and can't quite get to presenting. Mr. Bruns talked about this week's assigned blog and I chose to do mine over Lyndon Johnson. Next Mr. Bruns was going on about the Semester test and that he will post topicsa bout what we are all supposed to cover for our Semester Test Blog.
He will also talk about the Cold War project which we will begin when we get our presentations done. Mikyla started off with with the American front. The US homefront is the state of the United States during World War 2 to help us win the war.
Taxes increased by leaps and bounds despite the many protests from America's hardworking citizens. Everyone was forced to pay however to pay for the high costs that the war demanded. Many controls and doorstops were put on the economy to regulate prices and wages in the market and in employment. The government did this so that goods could not be too high or too low which helped give workers a little better pay and conditions in the work place.
Labor: Unemployment rate went down during the war because millions of men and women went off to fight in the war. Many people moved to the cities to work in industrial jobs to supply goods for the troops. Women took over the jobs that the drafted men had to leave behind to go and fight. Young men were also called to duty, not in combat, but to leave schools for a while so that they could tend to the fields.
The poster child for the women's worker movement was Rosy the Riveter which was disigned to show a tough woman who could do any of the jobs that a man could do.
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